Fruit-drier



A. W. WALKER.

(No Model.)

FRUIT DRIER.

No. 281,167. Patented July 10, 1883.

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UNITED STATES ATENT OFFICE- ALBERT IV. WALKER, OF OLEMMONSVILLE, NORTH CAROLINA.

FRUIT-DRIER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 281,167, dated July 10, 1883.

Application filed April 20, 1883. (N2 model.)

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, ALBERT XV. 'WALKER, of Glemmonsville, in the county of Davidson and State of North'Caroliua, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Fruit-Driers, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making a part of this specification, in which Figure 1 is a perspective View of a fruit-drier with my improvements attached. Fig. 2 is a top view of the same with the cover spread to allow the escape of heat.

My invention relates to devices for drying and curing of fruit, and it consists in the peculiar construction of the cover, by which I am enabled to diffuse the heat through the dryingchamber as it escapes therefrom.

To enable others skilled in the art to make and use my invention, I will proceed to describe the exact manner in which I have carried it out.

As fruit and other driers are usually constructed, the surplus heat is allowed to escape in a body at a single point, and this necessarily produces an unequal hot-air current through some particular part of the drier, and to a greater or less extent renders the curing of the fruit irregular. The object of my present invention is to overcome this difficulty and to maintain an equal distributi on of the heat even while passing from the drier. To accomplish this purpose I construct the top of the drier of a number of narrow parallel slats, A, of equal width, loosely pivoted to two cross-bars, B, and having an opening between the slats, as shown in Fig. 2. As these slats always have a par allel movement, it is evident that by slightly turning the cross-bars the slats maybe readily brought together, or be caused to approach each other as near as may be desired, to allow the proper escape of the heat from the drier, and as the openings between all the parallel slats willbe equal, the escape of the heat must necessarily be uniform through all parts of the drierthe great object sought to be gained.

Having thus explained my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

In a fruit-drier, the cover composed of a number of movable parallel slats, A, with intervening spaces, and pivoted to the cross-bars 13, whereby the distance between the slats is increased or diminished by the movement, and the escape of heatfrom the drier regulated and controlled, substantially as described.

ALBERT IV. XVALKER'.

Witnesses:

T. W ALTER FOWLER, H. B. APPLEWHAITE. 

